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The Dream of Hercules
Peter Vischer the Youngerc. 1515/16
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This drawing illustrates a scene from the drama Histori Herculis, which Vischer’s friend the Nuremberg humanist Pangraz Schwenter translated into German: When Somnus causes Hercules to fall into a deep sleep, the three Fates spin his life thread and announce Hercules’s decision at the crossroads between lust and virtue. The figure of Hercules was extremely popular as a model of virtue.
Details
- Title: The Dream of Hercules
- Creator: Peter Vischer the Younger
- Date Created: c. 1515/16
- Physical Dimensions: 24.6 × 16.3 cm
- Technique and Material: Pen and brown ink, watercolors, with brown borderline
- Provenance: Old inventory
- Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
- Inv.-No.: KdZ 1082
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-018511
- External Link: http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/kupferstichkabinett/home.html
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett/ Jörg P. Anders; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 77 / Dorothee Wagner
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: 1487 Nuremberg–1528 Nuremberg
- Artist Biography: The cutler and medalist probably trained with his father, the iron founder Peter Vischer the Elder, under whose direction he worked on the tomb sculpture for Saint Sebaldus in Nuremberg. A trip to Italy by Peter the Younger before 1507 has been proposed by scholars. In addition to plaques, Vischer produced copies from Dürer studies on proportion—testimony to his considerable interest in the human figure.
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